All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis. Analysis
- The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... Corrupting
- A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those… Called
- You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down. All
- Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the… Absurd
- Four things have almost invariably followed the imposition of controls to keep prices below the level they would reach under supply and demand in a… Almost Invariably
- The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.… Among
- The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices… Anointed
- In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the… Die
- There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. Inspirational
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,… Brilliant
- In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â… Amounts
- Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay… Another Way
- Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply:Â happen:Â to people, rather than be being caused… Academics
- To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United… All
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of… All
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common… Agreeing
- Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western… Businessman
- All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust? All
- It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet. Amazing